Hi,

I have just released my first SEO Tool. I wrote it originally just for myself, as I didn’t want to keep wasting time checking if backlinks were present. Of course link exchanges aren’t too good for seo (3 way/abc links are far better), but it is a lot easier to just get straight forward link exchanges so there are tons of them. This saves hours and hours!

Have you ever swapped lots of links with webmasters, but suspected that they have removed your link? Rather than having to load up their page and look for your link, use this backlink checker to find if the backlinks are present on all links you link to.

Screenshot of it in use:

Obviously you would not expect all links  you link to to have a back link, so you can ignore them.

To make it load faster, it only retrieves the list of urls from your site, then you can click on the sites to see if your backlink is present. Otherwise you would have to wait forever as we waited for their sites to load!

Give it a try, it’ll make sense then! Backlink checker

Quick post here - what is “Hilltop”?

It is a bit like PR, but based on communities.

If you have good hilltop rating, it will mean you have lots of links (or “votes”) from related sites.

:)

Just a short post, but did you know that search engines use what is called a “Reverse Index”? Rather than storing the content of all the pages*, it stores all the words and what pages (urls) contain that word

*They do store all the content as well. I was just simplifying it

Just a short little post :)

I would say that almost all “serious” amateur webmasters use adsense (or something very similar). And of course, you want to bring in as much revenue as possible. Over the years I’ve made a fair amount thanks to Google, and have worked out what works and what doesn’t. (Tips after the jump)

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Techcrunch is ranked at #468 at the time of writing according to Alexa. They have been going for only a year or two, have over 150,000 feed subscribers (according to their Feedburner pic), and make hundreds of thousands of $.

Making a site as popular as Techcrunch is probably the dream of almost all webmasters. I was talking to a friend about this, and we were talking about how they became so popular.

So… how did they do it? And more importantly, how can you copy them to follow in their footsteps?

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There are no real ways to know for sure how many people go to your site from bookmarks, but a couple of ways

• (the usual) take a high %  (or even 100%) of unique WITHOUT any referrer data (that also are not a bot)
• Make a “bookmark this” link, but make the bookmarked url something like “http://example.com/?camefrom=bookmark”. Then just do something like

• if ($_GET[’camefrom’] == “bookmark”)
  {
  // +1 to your stats thing counting bookmarks (database? etc)
  }

A new seo competition / contest was started the other day. I am not taking part (don’t really have the time right now).

It is run by SEO World Championships. If you want a free Globalwarming Awareness2007 backlink from here, just send a trackback or leave a comment below.

Version 2.0.7 of WordPress has just been released. It was released only 10 days after 2.0.6…

It isn’t too bad, if you used some auto installer such as Fantastico, but all you spammers out there with hundreds of blogs might be a bit p*ssed off!

It is important to upgrade though - this upgrade focuses on security issues.  You don’t want to get your site defaced or anything, do you :)

View the details here.

Making money from Myspace is quite easy. It used to be easier but they have cracked down on spam.

If you want to make sure they (probably) don’t remove your profile, make it look as crap as you can. Search for myspace layouts, put everything, glitter graphics, songs, the works. Upload a picture of an attractive girl, get a few friends, get some comments etc.

Now you have a few methods to make some money:

• Use the groups thing to make a group in your niche. Collect people who have a similar interest to what you are promoting/selling into a group. Use their search function to find people. Only bother adding people who are actually interested or at least your target market in/for your product.
• Get lots and lots of friends. Use auto adders (Google for them, most you have to pay for). Don’t do too many at once. If I were you, I would set up 5-10 accounts now, occasionally login add 5-10 people. After a couple of months after it looks like you’re a regular user (not a spammer) then start mass adding. Don’t do too many, they do remove profiles that spam friend requests. Once you have all these friends, then send bullitens or send messages/comments saying something such as “Hey, talk to me on here”, here being a webcam site such as IMLive (affiliated link, through their company Pussy Cash. You can even get around $2 per free sign up there - it is easy money) etc.
• Leave lots of comments with affiliated links. Ringtones etc. Make it seem you are not a spammer.

A good way to get people who are interested in your product, is to do a google search like site:myspace.com “your keyword”

You can also get a load of backlinks, by spamming links on comments.

Let me know in the comments for your thoughts etc on spamming myspace.

I know that some people go and sign up for adwords, sign up for adsense, make their own ad appear, click it, see how much they were charged. They then believe that Google is ripping them off (as for example they may recieve $x via adsense, but had to pay $x+y on adwords). Of course Google takes a cut. But the important thought I am trying to tell you is that remember that on the actual search results advertisers pay a lot more to display ads (or pay for the clicks anyway) than they do for the content network (Adsense).

Hope that made sense. More small posts coming soon